Stephen Wolfram, con­tro­ver­sial author of A new kind of
science, possible
crank,
and inventor of Wolfram Alpha, which has helped me solve many of my math
homeworks, has come up with the
claim
the he has invented a new com­pu­ta­tion­al paradigm. The initial blog post
was quite vague, throwing around many buzzwords such as cloud or natural
language, and dubious ideeas such "Algorithm au­toma­tion" (aren't
algorithms automatic already?), "Com­putable documents" (I presume he
means his pro­pri­etary format, CDF, but it doesn't make sense. You can
use any pro­gram­ming language to generate (compute) any document).

Yesterday, Ven­ture­Beat published an interview with him and came off as
bigger wor­ship­pers of Stephen Wolfram than Gizmodo is …continue.